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  • The long road to wilderness begins here

    Environmentalists cheer and critics vow to fight U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette's 1.4 million-acre wilderness bill for western Colorado.

  • Another wild opportunity

    The BLM brings six Colorado areas closer to possible wilderness designation by labeling them "roadless."

  • No takers for wilderness trip

    Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt tries to calm the state's bitter wilderness debate with a camping trip in proposed wilderness area - but no one wants to come.

  • A Utah vendetta

    Utah politicians, angry at actor Robert Redford's support of the controversial new Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, pass a resolution to turn Redford's Sundance resort into a wilderness.

  • A Utah vendetta

    Utah politicians, angry at actor Robert Redford's support of the controversial new Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, pass a resolution to turn Redford's Sundance resort into a wilderness.

  • Utah tells Babbitt to back off

    The state of Utah sues Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt for trying to "re-inventory" BLM lands for wilderness designation.

  • Utah wilderness proposal rises and dies

    The Utah delegation's controversial wilderness proposal for southern Utah is defeated in Congress after a struggle.

  • Utah wilderness goes coast-to-coast

    Utah's environmental groups sound a nationwide alarm to stop a Utah wilderness bill they describe as "disastrous."

  • Wilderness Act at 30

    The Wilderness Act Handbook is reissued by The Wilderness Society.

  • A wilderness proposal for Colorado

    Conservation groups propose designation of 48 new wilderness areas in Colorado.

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